Indocrinate the young so they will buy your stuff laterAirlines and industrial conglomerates like GE alike sponsored some big attractions at Disney theme parks, most of which (one would assume) were intended to impress favorable brand associations into young consumers' minds. Which companies still think about impressing their brands on people who won't really buy their products for ten or twenty years? Sounds like the kind of thing that a business with a 100-year business plan would do. There aren't many of those. But while it sounds like a foreign idea, it actually makes sense to formulate a 100-year plan for a family, so a family with a successful business ought to have the same sort of foresight for the business, too.

It may take a beauty queen to save an Iranian girl's lifeFormer Miss Canada is pushing a campaign to obtain the release of a 19-year-old girl who stabbed a rapist in self-defense. The girl was sentenced to death under Sharia law, and is now facing a retrial. Naturally, the campaign won't be sufficiently useful unless it also brings attention to the nature of the justice system which brought about the sentence.